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'ameter, the laying-block J, stationary cogwhile the tube revolves over it for the pur- NITED STATES y PATENT Orino TILL-IAM JOSLIVN, OF'VATERFORD, NEV `YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4,931, dated January i9, 1847, i

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known th at I, VILLIAM J OSLIN, of the town of Waterford, in the county of Saratoga and State of New York, have invented a new 4 and-useful Improvement in the Machine for Laying Cables, Rope, Twine, and Cordage of all Kinds, which is described as follows, reference being had to the-annexed drawings of the same, making part of this specification.

`Figure l is a perspective view of the machine for laying cordage. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the laying-block and condensing-tube. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the condensing-tube.

The machine, generally, is made like others in use, such as the base A, stanchions C, driving-shaft D, thelarge fiier E, reel F, right and left screw G for winding the cordage on the reel, the elastic band X to produce a regular draft as the reel lills and increases in diwheel P, and revolving cog-Wheel R, cogwheels K and M, ihe small fliers NIN, springs 0 for bearing against the bobbins to prevent the too rapid unwinding of the thread.

|lhe improvement that I have made in the machine consists in combining with the common laying-block J a condensing-tube K2, inserted into the cylindrical bore of the journal I of the large iiier E and turning with it, said condensing-tube being bored longitudinally in the center with a round aperture corresponding in diameter with that of the cable to be made, said aperture being gradually enlarged at the end next the laying-block, so as to form a conical socket of the exact size and shape of the conical laying-block which lies'in said socket in a stationary' position,

pose of confining the strands of` thread in the grooves of the laying-block and causing them to be laid in even parallel spiral lines. The moment they leave the grooves of the conical laying-block at the apex thereof, (by the usual twisting operation of the revolving iiier E,) and to be crowded against each other and condensed into a kcylindrical cable of a diameter corresponding with that of the bore of the aforesaid tube, the strands all being laid regularly and evenly and of a uniform angle and tension, producing a perfect cable.

The end of the condensing-tube, which covers `theconicallaving-block, is made of a corresponding conical form and size inside and of the same shape outside, resembling the outer surface of a funnel with a straight tube. The end of the hollow journal into which .the aforesaid funnel-shaped condensing-tube is to be inserted is made of the same shape as the outside of the conical laying-block, for the purpose of performing the same office as that performed by the funnel-shaped end of the laying-tube when the latter is withdrawn from the hollow journal, which is done when a cable is to be made of the full diameter Vof the bore of the journal of the revolving flier. Several condensing-tubes, bored for making various-sized cords, but of uniform Size and shape externally to that of the cylindrical chamber or bore of the journal of the flier, are to be provided and used according to the size of the cord required to be made, one being withdrawn when another is to be inserted.

When a yet larger cable is to be made, a larger machine must be provided, furnished with a series of condensing-tubes of different bores, but of uniform diameters externally, all designed to act in the manner above de-l scribed for laying and condensing the strands into a'cable each of uniform twist and size throughout its whole length.

The difference inthe spaces between the strands vof the cables made by the machines now in use, the want of parallelism of the A strands, their unequal tension and riding each other, and consequent weakness and poor appearance of cables now manufactured are owing to the want of the condensing-tube combined with the laying-block, as above described, in manufacturing the cables, which condensinglt-ube is considered a very important addition to the machine for manufacturing cordage.

Another improvement that I have made in the machine above mentioned consists in the use of a hollow sliding frustum of a cone B, combined with the revolving regulator-shaft H, secured in any required position longitudinally on said shaft for the purpose of graduating the tension of the strands during the operation of laying or twisting them, the tension beingincreased by moving the frustum of d cone to the right and decreased by movi. The combination of the adj ust-able frusing it to the left, said frustum of a @one be- 1 tum of a @one with the revolving Shaft ll ing secured to the shaft H by the screw b'. and condensing-tube K2, for graduating the Vhat I ela-im as my invention, and desire tension of the strands during the operation to seeulre by Letters Patent. is of laying them, as described.

l. Tle combination of the revolving con- T T (lensing-tube K2 with the stationary layingf f X HLAM JO'SLI' block J, the former being constructed and Witnesses: operated in the manner and for the purpose \VM. P. ELLIOT,

set forth. A J. FRANCIS MAHER. 

